The unique plastic displays are produced in Plastic Logic's world-first commercial scale plastic electronics manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany.
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The implicit goal has always seemed to be the creation of a translucent plastic other-world so appealing and incompatible that PC users would be compelled to switch platforms entirely.
Inhabitat recently reported on Boyan Slat, a 19-year-old student who designed an ocean cleanup array that he estimates could remove 7.25 million tons of plastic from the world's oceans.
Belgian Liberal Philippe de Backer said people can encounter "major difficulties" without a bank account, for example in receiving wages and paying bills, because "cash is being replaced by plastic in our world".
Attempts to ban the plastic horn during the World Cup itself may have failed but it soon found itself on the not-wanted list at global sporting tournaments.
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However, it's this convenience, coupled with a voracious appetite for one-time-use plastics that is now hurtling back toward us as an ever-growing and devastating set of plastic fingerprints on our natural world.
The latest evolution in data security leaves numbers behind and returns to the physical world: A plastic token filled with microscopic glass spheres, and it looks like a much harder nut to crack than the codes of the past.
All of a sudden, after having fought for so many years against merely aspirational advertising, our world is crowded with plastic models.
According to the Container Recycling Institute, U.S plastic recycling rates have been in decline for the past 10 years (some of this may have to do with the fact that waste is increasingly being shipped to places like China, which now boasts the world's biggest plastic recycling plant in Beijing).
The latter is a matter, in turn, of the demand for polyethylene, the world's most commonplace plastic.
Take one conundrum tackled by consumers every day at markets around the world: Paper bags or plastic?
Secure Wrap claims its plastic is the only one in the world with "shrink memory" that causes it to pull back if it is cut, making it impossible to conceal tampering, says new business director Nicholas Valdespino, Daniel's brother.
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Dow Chemical ( DOW) supplies plastic materials and chemicals to customers around the world, but North America is its largest geographic market, producing 36.4% of first quarter 2010 revenues.
More than 90 universities in the US and others around the world have already restricted the sale of plastic bottles, as have some local government authorities.
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Plastic floating in the five sub-tropical gyres of the world, and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, are two petroleum disasters.
In Port-au-Prince, a chaotic scene erupted as people clamored to reach the trucks of a World Food Programme convoy carrying water purification tablets, plastic sheeting, collapsible jugs and nutritional biscuits.
We are surely not meant to be celebrating the fact that the world gets through a massive 230 million tons of plastic in a year, 90 percent of which is not recycled.
When I came back out, we got his plastic bag of clothes and cane together and gave the nice World Services employee a tip to take him downstairs to wait for the shuttle.
As a result, plastic recycling programs have met with varying degrees of success around the world: in Sweden the recycling rate of PET bottles in 2004 was 80 percent compared to the U.S which was 15 percent.
In the modern world, we make most of our pots out of metal and plastic, but we still use plain-old pottery for everyday items, from coffee mugs to dinner plates.
It even made jerseys for nine football teams competing in the World Cup when it was held in South Africa - using polyester recycled from plastic bottles.
According to author Billy Ingram, perhaps the world's leading Winky Dink authority, many children who didn't own the plastic sheets simply took crayons they had around the house and, on Winky Dink's cue, drew directly on the glass screens of their parents' expensive first-generation television sets.
Sure it is pretty shiny plastic, but the shape was just great to hang onto which is something of a rarity in our world of giant slabs.
Spectators at that opening ceremony held up a colored piece of plastic under their noses to create an image that, from a distance, looked like a map of the world.
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